Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer (born July 9, 1941), in Phoenix, Arizona, is an acclaimed author of children's and young adult literature. She received her B.S. degree from Reed College, Portland, Oregon, in 1963, then enlisted in the U.S. Peace Corps from 1963–1965, and eventually became a lab technician in Zimbabwe from 1975–1978, where she met her future husband, Harold. The couple were married after a courtship lasting a week. Farmer currently lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their son, Daniel.

Bibliography

Novels and novelettes

• The Mirror (novelette) (1987)
• Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat (1987)
• Do You Know Me (1993)
• Tapiwa's uncle (1993)
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• The Warm Place (1995)
• Runnery Granary: A Mystery Must Be Solved-Or the Grain is Lost! (1996)
• A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb by James Bernardin and Nancy Farmer (1999)
• The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• The Sea of Trolls (2004)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Nancy Farmer (2004)
• Excerpt from The House of the Scorpion - in Full-Blooded Fantasy: 8 Spellbinding Tales Where Anything Is Possible (2005)
• Clever Ali (2006)
• Land of the Silver Apples, a sequel to The Sea of Trolls is due to be published in 2007

Short stories

• "Origami Mountain" - in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1992)
• "Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse" - in A Wolf At the Door (2000)
• "Remember Me" - in Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (2003)

Awards

• 1995, Newbery Honor for The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
• 1997, Newbery Honor for A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
• 2002, National Book Award (U.S.), Young People's Literature category, for The House of the Scorpion (2002)
• 2003, Newbery Honor for The House of the Scorpion (2002)

External links

• Nancy Farmer on LibraryThing
• Nancy Farmer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Nancy Farmer at the Locus Index to SF Awards
• Nancy Farmer on childrenslit.com
• An interview with Nancy Farmer on Suite101
• Excerpts from a Locus Magazine interview with Nancy Farmer